Monografiya posvyashchena metodike formirovaniya regionovedcheskoy kompetentsii uchashchikhsya v ramkakh obucheniya elektivnomu professional"no-orientirovannomu kursu regional"noy napravlennosti (na primere turistskoy sfery v Respublike Buryatiya). Regionovedcheskaya kompetentsiya predlagaetsya avtorom vpervye i vvoditsya naryadu so stranovedcheskoy, sotsiolingvisticheskoy i predmetnoy i yavlyaetsya sostavlyayushchey sotsiokul"turnoy kompetentsii v ramkakh IKK. V rabote podrobno predstavleny tseli, soderzhanie, printsipy, metody, formy i sredstva obucheniya, predlagayutsya primery iz uchebnogo posobiya "Buryatia inside out" i slovarya-spravochnika "Cultural guide to Buryatia". Monografiya adresovana studentam pedagogicheskikh spetsial"nostey, aspirantam, uchitelyam-praktikam,avtoram-razrabotchikam elektivnykh kursov filologicheskogo profilya.